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Indian Premier League (IPL) auction for the 12th edition of the Indian Premier League was held in Jaipur on December 18.
A maximum of 70 slots were available to be filled, with 50 of those being for Indian players.
The 8 IPL teams Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore, King XI Punjab, Delhi Capitals, Mumbai Indian and Kolkata Knight Riders will pick the players to add to their core team.
Kings XI Punjab had the maximum budget available for the...

IMDb released the list of 2018 Top 10 Stars of Indian Cinema on the movie website on Tuesday and not so surprisingly Bollywood diva Deepika Padukone made it to number one rank of the list.
The most exciting thing about this announcement was that Deepika left all the Khans behind her and became the no. 1 star with only 1 movie this year.
The list was derived using data from IMDbPro STARmeter rankings, which are based on page views of more than 250 million monthly visitors to the platform.
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi boasted of fulfilling his election promise of waiving off farm loans in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, on Tuesday.
Addressing the media in the parliament complex, Rahul challenged the Narendra Modi government to follow suit at the Centre.
"The three elections that the Congress has won in MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have proved to be a victory of the people. We have said that the main fight in India is between farmers and the segregated sections on the one hand...

One of the most popular online smartphone games ever PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) services were taken down yesterday for maintenance. The game returned back with a massive update which brought the much-awaited PUBG Vikendi Snow Map to the platform.
PUBG Mobile 0.10.0 update is the addition of Vikendi map, which is a snow map with a 6x6km size Arctic landscape covered in snow. The update is currently available on both the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. The update comes in at...

A major fire broke out in Mumbai’s state government-run Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospital at Andheri East, on Monday.
At least eight people, including a 6-month-old baby, died. 157 people were injured, a few of which are very critical.
Over 150 staffers and patients had been rescued till now. Six were killed on Monday, and two died this morning.
Four of the eight deceased are yet to be identified. Firefighting operations went on for three hours at the hospital. Over 300 people...

Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut's much-anticipated film of the year, 'Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi' trailer launched on Tuesday at Wadala’s IMAX Theater in Mumbai.
The makers decided to launch the trailer of this mammoth project in a grand style. Kangana Ranaut attended the event and looked like a warrior queen in a red saree with complimenting Indian jewellery that oozed royalty.
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Jio Brand & Beyond – An Article By Mr Parimal Nathwani

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‘Today, India is ranked 155th in the world for mobile broadband Internet access, out of 230 countries. Jio is conceived to change this. I have no doubt that with the launch of Jio, India's rank will go up to among the top ten.’ With these words on September 1, 2016, at the launch of Reliance Jio, Shri Mukesh D. Ambani began India’s journey to truly revolutionize the Digital India dream of our Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
The United Nations has declared Internet a basic human right. Yet out of the total 4 billion people in the world that don’t have Internet access, India accounted for 25% of them, which is 1 billion. Most of the people around the world who don’t have Internet access live in the rural areas, low income countries and face infrastructure hurdles. Keeping these factors in mind, India’s focus to realize its Digital India dreams should be on these three elements of connectivity. India has a vast potential of a growing digital economy, jobs coming through these mediums and an increased GDP numbers by bringing in more people on to the digital platform by making data access easier and smart phones cheaper.
According to the report from IAMAI, the country was estimated to have 371 million mobile internet users by June 2016. Growth figures of mobile internet users and the total number of internet users in India suggest that mobile connectivity is the preferred choice for internet connectivity. As per the IAMAI report in 2015, the share of mobile internet spend in the average monthly bill rose to 64% from 54% in the previous year. While the government is working to make broadband available in every village in India it is imperative that even private players in this field step up their game to make data access better and affordable.
Reliance Jio, is not just planning to cater to 4G data on mobiles, but also expand to fibre-optic broadband for homes. The company has also laid more than 2.5 lakh kms of fibre-optic cables, covering 18,000 cities and over one lakh villages and has an initial end-to-end capacity to serve in excess of 100 million wireless broadband and 20 million Fibre-to-Home customers.
India’s 15.1% population is connected to the internet vis a vis 45.8% in China, 84.2% in USA and 86.2% in Japan. The best part is that Indians are moving closer towards realizing a Digital India in terms of average Internet speeds with pricing which is affordable and accessible. Jio network plans to change connectivity and data access through aggressive data pricing and assured better speeds. Jio’s announcement not to charge ever for voice or text messaging within India has shaken the rivals. If rivals call it ‘predatory’ pricing, it’s their problem. For Jio, customer is the king.
With economic reforms in the 1990s, telecommunications became a thrust area with many service providers entering the space to provide cellular services at higher rates making it out of reach for most Indians. However that hegemony was challenged in 2002 after Reliance Infocom (now Reliance Communication) entered the fray carrying forward Dhirubhai Ambani’s dream of a mobile telephone in every Indian’s hand by making it affordable. Now we witness history being repeated by Shri Mukesh D. Ambani under the Jio brand. Now since India’s digital dreams powered by Jio are truly unleashed, let thousands and lakhs of young dreams bloom and millions of new businesses be created! Jio Hind!
(Shri Parimal Nathwani is Rajya Sabha MP and Group President Corporate Affairs Reliance Industries Limited)